Posted: 11/1/2004 6:02:10 PM EDT
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Is this True? an officer who does not graduate from one of the Military Academies is commisoned in the reserves. This is not a choice; it is policy, and has been for a long time. |
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If they are assigned to Combat Arms units they will be commisioned as Regular Army officers. Most ROTC officers are on a reserve commision (even the ones who are active duty). Remeber waht the R in ROTC stands for, it is not the RAOTC. ETA: One difference is that a Regular Army officer is commisioned until the age of 65, a Reserves Officer's commision ends upon discharge (unless he has IRR comitments). |
The part about being a Reserve officer is a commision status rather than a service indicator, there are thousands of Reserve officers serving in Active duty Units. A guy my dad went to flight school with in 75 had served as an enlisted, then went Warrant, they went thier seperate ways, until thier lasts assignment, where they went to the 2/17 Cav at Campbell, my dad was already a RA officer, but his old flight school buddy had to accept at RA commision for one reason or another to be a member of the unit, the buddy had been in for nearly 19 years, all of it active duty, he had no Army Reserve or national Guard time at any point. |
All Officers are commissioned with reserve commissions. It is up to the service to when they transition to the regular ranks. For example the Marine Corps awards 10 percent (top ten percent) of its TBS classes regular commissions. Those officers that get the regular commissions will get them on the subsequent FY augmentation board, however. By statue, your not required to be a regular officer till you are appointed as a Major/Lt Commander. |
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In the USAF, it USED to be that all Academy grads and 10% of OTS and ROTC grads got regular commissions. They changed the rules about 5 years ago, now all graduates start with a reserve commission and get a regular, usually upon promotion to the rank of Major. The main difference is a regular officer is a little more immune from a reduction in force than a reserve officer, and there's some additional differences after they retire, IIRC. |